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BN operated the last freight train on this mainline on December 31 , 1994 , in preparation for the construction of Westside MAX , part of the TriMet Light Rail system.


REMNANTS

  • Long stretches of track from Tigard to Salem are now owned by the Portland And Western Railroad .

  • The former station in Eugene has been reused and is now the Oregon Electric Station (OES) restaurant.

  • The Albany station is now a pizza parlor.

  • The Corvallis station is now a restaurant.

  • The Multnomah depot is now John's Market, a grocery and liquor store.

  • The two buildings of the North Bank Depot in Portland were the northern terminal for the OER. They were preserved and converted into condominumums in the 1990s.



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REFERENCES

  • (May 1995 ), "Freight out, light rail in", ''Trains Magazine'', p. 24.

  • ''The Spokane, Portland and Seattle'', by Charles and Dorothy Wood (Seattle, Washington: Superior Press), 1974

  • ''Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest'', by Carlos A. Schwantes (Seattle, Washington: University of Seattle Press), 1993